Why Fedora is the new Ubuntu
If you are familiar with Twitter and Gmail, there’s no reason that you should not know about Linux. For long …
Affordable home webcam monitoring with cross platform compatibility and playback
In the sequel «Get the most out of your Ubuntu home server» and «How to do cool tech stuff rather …
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Home automation – building a temperature monitoring service with mobile device interface
I believe every engineer (legally entitled or not) should spend some time on research. When I first discovered the USB …
Axisymmetric parameterized hex mesh for corrugated pipes
Corrugated pipes are used in industry purposes to allow a certain bending, while still having structural stiffness and withstanding i.e …
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Automating blockMesh pipe geometries in OpenFOAM
This tool is now available online: www.versati.no OpenFOAM is an excellent tool to perform accurate CFD studies. The software also …
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Change ffmpeg from bicubic to lanczos interpolation
As ffmpeg2theora (the easiest tool for ogg/theora conversion) doesn’t have any «sharpness» options or ways to specificy image scaling, best …
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Project Euler users per world populations
I have spent some time on solving some of the quizzes on Project Euler lately. It’s basically about solving math …
Internet Explorer 8 – marginal forskjell
Det er alltid knyttet en viss forventning til en programvareutgivelse med versjonssprang. At da IE går fra 7 til 8 …
Spotify vs. last.fm
After being introduced to Spotify recently, this suddenly turned out to be my main source of music. I find that …
Fixing external harddrives with failing partition
It was just before christmas that I was confronted with a Western Digital harddrive being used on a Mac with …
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